The Big Ben Institute of Magic has indeed invited a lot of people.

Cecilia, Ulysses, and a number of high-level mages who excelled in alchemy were invited, as were the legendary mages Strauss and Cleveland, but they were sent by the kingdom and were temporarily unable to participate in the institute's projects.

For the time being, only Strauss and Cleveland are willing to join this institute, of course, there are other legendary powerhouses in the royal family, but they all seem to be warrior-type powerhouses, such as the royal guard captain Perseus, there must be hidden powerhouses within the royal family, but the legendary powerhouses of the royal family seem to be warrior-type, including Edward.

There are still legendary mages in other families in the kingdom, such as the three major dukes' families, but after they received the invitation, they only sent a few high-level mages to join, and it is estimated that they are still skeptical about how much of a role this magic academy built by Solomon.

Although these magnates have understood that they must unite under the banner of the kingdom in order to be free from foreign enemies, they have always had a narrow family concept, even if Solomon promised at the same time that if the high-ranking mages or alchemists they sent to participate in the research of magic came to fruition, they could share a part of the patent or be granted the right to use it.

In the end, this is still a matter of time, including the patent law, and too many people do not realize its significance.

But the magicians accepted this patent law, because it protected their rights and interests, such as the Wizards' Guild happily accepted Solomon's invitation, not only allowing a large number of middle- and high-level magicians and alchemists who were originally affiliated with the Magic Academy to join the Magic Research Institute, but also sending the news back to the Magicians Guild's general association.

As a result, the polar cold Durant sent a message from his disciples. He would accept the invitation, and Solomon was pleasantly surprised by the fact that Fernandez, another ruler, agreed to join. Because this legendary master has a very high level of attainment in magic sequences. And that's exactly what Solomon needed.

In addition to the positive response from the Mage's Guild, Solomon also announced that any mage who has not received a direct invitation will have the opportunity to join as long as they can qualify for the Guò Big Ben Institute of Magic.

This made those wild mages excited, of course, the vast majority of them must not even have the possibility of entering the research institute as assistants, in this regard, magicians from the magic academy or the magicians' guild have a natural advantage, not to mention anything else, just participating in alchemy. Ordinary wild mages are not qualified to be assistants because of their lack of experience in this area, and when you think about the painstaking construction of the base of the academy in the first place, you can see how difficult it is to develop in this area without sufficient support.

However, anyone who can join the Wizard Research Institute as a wild mage is definitely extraordinary, either they are talented and have a big brain, so that Solomon needs this kind of whimsical person to open up the direction of research, or they can support independent research, such magicians are quite amazing in terms of combat power and their own wealth, and what they lack is connections. Previously unwilling to be limited to the Wizards' Guild, he joined the Institute of Magic in the hope of finding like-minded people. Or be able to fit your own research in Asturias.

As long as Solomon can feel valuable invitees or qualified wild mages, oh no, such people are now called independent mages, meaning mages who conduct magic research alone, which is much better to listen to, and also makes others feel respected, and will be accepted by Solomon, and the legendary mage here is not definitely more valuable than a high-level mage, because it is to conduct magic research, not combat.

Of course, most participants must sign a magic contract to ensure the confidentiality of the project they are participating in, and not to divulge the details of their experience and the content of their participation, and the Wizarding Institute will promise that if the research project is ultimately successful or has some progress, the participant has the right to enjoy the results.

At the same time, the promulgation of the patent law also guarantees in the form of law that if the project of the Magic Guide Research Institute produces results, although it will be obtained as a mission of the kingdom, and most of the rights and interests will belong to the kingdom, but the participants can use part of the patent rights themselves, but the power cannot be resold or granted to others, for example, if Cecilia really creates a high-level source power gun with the help of the resources and support of the magic guidance research institute in the future, or even a legendary source power gun, the rights and interests of its design are vested in the kingdom, and Cecilia does not have the right to authorize people other than her to make public profits, but she has the right to open her own workshop to produce and sell the finished productThat's her right to share patents, but she can't share the results of projects she hasn't been involved in.

The good thing about Solomon in this is that he can all share it, because he also has an identity, he is the first director and head of the project of the Big Ben Magic Institute.

Of course, all the magicians who have joined the Magic Research Institute have the right to propose projects to submit to the Institute for demonstration, and if they can be approved by Solomon or the Wizards' Association, they can set up a project for research; if they are approved by Solomon, it means that Solomon will agree to use the resources and wealth provided by the Kingdom for Big Ben's Magic Research to support the start of this research; if it is not approved by Solomon, then another opportunity is to be recognized by the Magic Association of the Institute and get this recognitionThe representative proposed that the project owner could find investors and collaborators within the institute and form a research team to start the research project, but if he wanted to find investors or collaborators outside the firm, he had to obtain the consent of both Solomon and the joint committee.

The ownership of the results of the project is also different from that of the projects supported by the Kingdom, which made it clear that most of the rights, especially the use and resale of the project by others, as well as the collection of patent fees, belong to the Kingdom, and the participants only get the right to use the project results, but do not have the right to grant others to receive the patent money; But the kingdom enjoyed the use of these results to build workshops. The power to manufacture finished products. However, other private individuals who want to make a profit from the patent disclosure of these achievements can only buy the right to use the patent from the original inventor.

This is the personnel situation and administrative operation rules of the Big Ben Magic Institute, there is the attraction of patent rights, and the magic contract must be signed, and if it is really a valuable project, Solomon will definitely send the right personnel to participate, on the one hand, to supervise the secrecy, and on the other hand, to grasp the progress. In this way, the rights and interests of Asturias were guaranteed in all respects, as well as his own rights and interests, and some kingdoms were not necessarily established, but Solomon could get close to the water and get the moon first, and even use the name of the director of the public economy to represent the kingdom not to accept the project, and then fund it in his own private capacity. Although this is a bit shameless, for the magicians involved, they often don't pay much attention to it, because what they need most is someone who is willing to provide the necessary conditions to activate the patent law before this thing was born, and too many research-mad magicians and alchemists are far from really realizing what this code means to them. Solomon was also able to take advantage of the first few years.

So about some valuable projects that have started at Big Ben's Magic Institute, the first is Cecilia's Source Gun research.

The study has already yielded some results. The first prototype gun, named after her and her disciples, was successful before entering the institute, and continued to be implemented at the institute, and in less than half a year, the group led by Cecilia achieved further success. The base type of the source force gun has been created, and there are double-barreled base guns with both physical attack and source attack (the concept of the base type means that the source attack is an enchantment of a spell effect, but it can be replaced with other spell effects of the same level and below), and there are also single-barreled base guns that must have source force attacks.

But if in terms of cost, the latter is more expensive, because generally both physical attack and source force attack dual effects, the enchantment effect of the source force attack is only low-level spells for the time being, and there must be a single-barreled base gun with source force attack, but because there is no need to keep pure physical attack alone, the saved gun body can be used to engrave higher-level spells, so single-barreled base guns are usually medium-level spells, or can be selected in a variety of spell effects with one shot.

However, there was a split among Cecilia's group regarding the choice of multiple spell effects for one shot, that is, one faction supported the coexistence of multiple spell models with a composite magic array, and the magic patterns on different bullets to fill the gaps, so as to actively choose which spell effect to choose, and the other faction supported Solomon's idea of using different magic magazines to load the gun body to achieve this effect. The two factions of supporters were almost identical, and they kept arguing, so that Solomon finally had to increase resources and funds, allowing the two factions to implement their own ideas, and in the end the theories and views of these two factions led to the development of two different systems in the production of the power gun from the later sources, which is not a later story.

As for the high-level and more distant Legend level of the Source Power Gun, it takes more time, which is by no means an easy task, because once successful, it is equivalent to making it possible for the holder to use it beyond the level, and if there are enough magic crystals as the source power, theoretically a warrior with a certain amount of mental power can use it (it is still difficult for people who have not undergone mental power training to use it).

But this is far from Solomon's goal.

Another key to Solomon's goal in the Source Gun is to not only build a base gun, but also to be able to manufacture it in batches.

To achieve this goal, in addition to the support of a large number of magic crystals, there is also a difficulty in how to develop the current handicraft style of magical artifact production to something similar to the replacement of manual labor with machinery in the process of industrialization.

This requires Solomon and Cecilia to talk about the theory of sequential magic, which piqued her interest.

To this end, Solomon set up a research group on sequence magic and mechanical manufacturing, and in addition to him continuing to be the leader, Lord Fernandez, who had the title of master, was naturally pulled into this group and served as the chief designer, in addition to this, this group also brought in Borok and several other dwarven elders who are skilled in machinery.

The purpose of introducing them is to first establish automatic or semi-automatic production lines for mechanical manufacturing with the help of them, which are used to produce firearms.

They were proficient in machinery and the craft of making firearms, while Solomon had a general direction and the concept of transforming manual production into automatic or semi-automatic production, but in order to achieve this purpose, whether it is automatic production or semi-automatic production, it is necessary to transfer materials and control the rhythm of manufacturing. In the absence of a previous life, mechanical civilization developed to a higher degree. In the case of the cooperation of software system and computer technology. All Solomon could think of was to use the magic array and sequence magic theory in the existing magical civilization instead.

As for whether it can succeed, it depends on the results of this group, and the addition of the controller makes Solomon have another point of certainty.

As long as it succeeds, even if it is costly, Solomon will have to build a production line that can combine magic and mechanical combinations that can be precisely controlled after combining magic arrays and sequence magic theories, and the mass production of firecrackers will no longer be delusional.

And the power of the firebolt is actually due to the fact that in the field of Fadel's battle for human life. Having already secured Edward's support, he had begun to introduce armies, form musket troops, and train them, but it was still too early to take shape, but it was already a step ahead of other countries, and if Solomon's magic and mechanical production lines could bear fruit. That's a big lead over the rest of the world.

The only downside is that the production line can be built. The key control center is much more expensive than building a software system and a computer, because after all, in the world before Solomon's crossing, the high-precision CNC machine tool and the like are expensive in their technology and the process cost of manufacturing the machine tool, and the material of the machine tool itself is still not equivalent to gold; 。

However, as long as this key point is solved, the basic conditions for mass production of firearms will be met.

Even in the future, if it is to be combined with Cecilia's research to mass-produce the Source Power Gun, this is also a prerequisite that must be had.

However, if you want to mass-produce the source power gun, it should only be limited to the high-level models and below, and the high-level and above are too complicated, at least the compound magic array must be used to solve the magic pattern seal carving problem.

Another big problem is the problem of magic crystals, where did so many magic crystals come from.

At present, the alien planes occupied by Asturias, including those controlled by the dukes, have not found a large number of magic crystal ores, and only a small number of magic crystal ores have been found in Yugudral, and they have to be mined deep underground.

According to the estimation of high-level mages and alchemists, there may be several conditions for the generation of magic crystal ore, one is that the higher the plane, the greater the probability of producing magic crystal ore, because magic crystal ore should be a high-energy resource, and the other is that it is generally easy to condense under the plane or in some special areas where there are conditions to produce magic crystal ore.

So Solomon no longer has the same shit luck as he found Black Rock, and he has to fight some difficult planes, such as the recent kingdom has paid so much attention to the new round of wars caused by the Grugul Empire because of the ancient Lambel Empire, because the resources there are indeed abundant.

Of course, the Kaos plane is not without magic crystal mines, there are below the surface, and there are many dark regions.

After several transactions, Solomon initially gained the trust of Mitaunos, Medusa, and the Harpy Witch, and it can be regarded as a tie-up, and he can start long-term trading in the future, but he can use this line to get magic crystals.

But this line is not stable, even if he becomes a member of the dark parliament in the future, this line does not dare to be called a stable supply line.

It's not that Medusa and Mitaunos will regret it or anything, but because the Dark Region itself is not a stable area, and the dark elves have started a new round of expansion in recent decades, maybe they want to establish the fourteenth main city, once Medusa and Mitaunos can't resist and are expelled or enslaved, then they can still supply a stable yarn.

It's a pity that the black rock can't replace the magic crystal to use on the source power gun, the magic contained in the same volume of black rock is too thin, and burning and refining it in the boiler like this does not hinder its use, but the source power gun is used on the move, and it is impossible to ask the gun wielder to drag the huge boiler.

It's not that Solomon hasn't thought about using Black Rock as a substitute, but that's another problem to solve.

And now that the Magic Research Institute has just started, although there are already a lot of magicians who have joined, it is really difficult to start a third big project in addition to the Source Gun Group and the Magic and Mechanical Manufacturing Research Group.

Therefore, Solomon finally decided that if the first two projects were successful, he would first find the source of the magic crystal to provide stable material support for the manufacture of the source power gun, and as for the third project that might solve the source of the magic crystal, it could only be left for later. (To be continued......)